Abstractionism: discover the 11 most famous works

Or Abstractionism, or Abstract Art, is a movement that brings together quite diverse productions, that go from non-figurative designs to fabrics executed from geometric compositions.

With the intention of abstract works and showing forms, colors and textures, revealing elements that are not reconciled and stimulating a reading of the world from a type of art that is not objective.

1. Amarelo-Vermelho-Blueby Wassily Kandinsky

A canvas, dated 1925, item no title os nomes das cores primárias. Wassily Kandinsky (1866) was painted Russian hair (1866), and is currently located in the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Center Georges Pompidou, in Paris (France).

Kandinsky is considered or a forerunner of the abstract style and was an artist closely linked to music, so much so that he was part of his abstract compositions, such as Amarelo-Vermelho-Blue, foram created from the relationship between music, as cores and forms.

A canvas of large dimensions (127 cm by 200 cm) has various geometric shapes (such as circles, rectangles and triangles) executed, surmounted, in primary cores. The objective of the artist was to draw attention to the psychological effects that are cores and forms exercised by people.

Regarding the matter, Kandinsky affirmed at height:

“A cor é um meio to exert a direct influence on the soul. A cor é a key; or olho, or hammer it. To soul, or instrument you give a thousand strings. Or artist is mine who, when playing this or what key, gets the soul with just vibração. A human soul, touched, is not the most sensitive point, he responds. "

2. Number 5by Jackson Pollock

To cloth Number 5 I was raised in 1948 by the North American painter Jackson Pollock, who no previous year began to explore a completely new way of compor his works.

His method consisted of pouring out enameled ink on an esthetic cloth placed on his own studio. This technique allowed to create an emaranhado of linhas, and later ganhou or nome of "paintings by dripping" (ou dripping, in English) Pollock was two major names for abstractionism.

Since 1940 the painter tinha reconhecimento gives criticism and the public. To cloth Number 5, feita not apex da sua carreira, e imensa, possui 2.4 m by 1.2 m.

The work was sold to a private collector in May 2006 for 140 thousand dollars, beating a record of price for the time - at this point it had been the most recent payment for history.

3. Insula Dulcamaraby Paul Klee

In 1938, or his naturalized German Paul Klee painted seven large paintings in horizontal format. Insula Dulcamara é um desses painéis.

All the works are outlined with carvão on wage, which Klee colou on tow or linho, thus obtaining a smooth and differentiated surface. In various parts, two painis and possible sections of the wage used, a pleasant and unexpected surprise for Klee himself.

Insula Dulcamara is two more joyful works of the painter, with his free accessories, scattered and with a defined shape. The title of work is in Latin and means "insula" (ilha), "dulcis" (twelve, amavel) and "amarus" (bitter), and can be interpreted as "Ilha doce e amarga".

A fabric was raised during the last years of its life and, regarding the, Klee deu a following statement:

"We shouldn't expect to see ourselves involved, not with more indigestible elements; We just have to hope that the more difficult things to assimilate do not disturb or balance. This way, life is, with certainty, more overwhelming than a very orderly bourgeois life. And each um é livre, according to your gestures, to or escort between or twelve and or left two pratos da balança. "

4. Composition with Amarelo, Azul e Vermelhoby Piet Mondrian

Composition with Amarelo, Azul e Vermelho It was initially painted in Paris, between 1937 and 1938, but it ended up being developed in New York between 1940 and 1942, when Mondrian repositioned some of the beautiful lines and accents of others. A work found, since 1964, no collection of Tate St Ives (Cornwall, England).

Or Mondrian's interest was in abstract quality. Embora, he had started his career with figurative works, as a passing time or a painter investing in abstractionism and, in 1914, he radicalized and practically eliminated the curves of his work.

O French painter developed a new form of rigorous abstraction chamada neoplasticism, which was limited to lines of lines, horizons and verticais, and basic primary cores. In general, his compositions were not symmetrical. Uma curiosidade: as linhas horizontais was generally painted before verticais days.

Mondrian felt that this specific type of art reflects a greater and universal truth than it precedes figurative painting.

5. Suprematist composition, Kazimir Malevich

Assim as Mondrian, or Soviet painter Kazimir Malevich created a new art form. OR Suprematism born in Russia between 1915 and 1916. Like his fellow abstractionists, his greatest wish was to deny the physical presence of all and any object. The idea was to achieve purity, or, as stated by the breeder himself, "supremacy gives pure sensation".

Assim, created an abstract work Suprematist composition in 1916, which presents the essential characteristics of the new style. This work with dimensions of 88.5 cm × 71 cm and part of a private collection.

A technique is characterized by the use of simple geometric shapes and the preference for a palette of Also simple, primary and secondary cores, sometimes overlapped, others positioned side by side. side. O founded é quase semper branco nas criações de Malevich, representing o vazio.

6. O ouro do firmamentby Joan Miró

O espanhol Joan Miró was an artist committed to extracting grandiose meanings from simple forms, which mostly depend on the imagination and interpretation of the observer.

This is the case of O ouro do firmament, picture made in 1967 with the acrylic technique on canvas and that the page belongs to the collection of the Fundação Joan MIró, in Barcelona.

Nessa composition, we see a predominance of amarelo, a current linked to joy, which envelops all forms.

There is a large mass faded in blue, which takes place of prominence, since the rest of the shapes and lines seem to float to the Lord.

O work is considered a synthesis of Miró's creative process, which was dedicated to investigating both spontaneously and creating precise forms in painting.

7. Bottle of Rum and Newspaperby Juan Gris

Painted between 1913 and 1914 by Spanish cubist Juan Gris, or work in oil ink on canvas, it currently belongs to the collection of Tate Modern (London). Gray often used flat, textured cor e overlays, and Bottle of Rum and Newspaper He is a precious exemplar of his technique.

Or picture, that you give his most representative works of him, load an image from angular planes in intersection. Many of them are stretches of wood from the past, perhaps suggestive of a tabletop, illustrate how they overlap and interlink, denying any possibility of perspective linked to the real.

A bottle and or journal of the title are indicated with a minimum of clues: some letters, an outline and a suggestion of a location are enough to bet on the identity of two objects. Or square has relatively small dimensions (46 cm by 37 cm).

8. Black in deep redby Mark Rothko

Considered a tragic painting due to the suas cores fortes e funebres, Black in Deep RedRaised in 1957, he is two paintings by the later succession of North American painter Mark Rothko. Since he began to paint, in the 1950s, Rothko almejava reached universality, in every year he found an increasingly simplified shape.

Black em Deep Red The characteristic format follows two works by the artist, not which the monochromatic rectangles seem to float within two limits of the quadro.

Directly staining cloth with many fine layers of pigment and giving special attention to the borders where the interrage fields, or painter reached or effect gives light radiating from the image itself.

The work currently belongs to a private collection that has been sold in 2000 for an amazing over three thousand dollars.

9. Concetto spaziale 'Attesa'by Lúcio Fontana

A canvas grows on the face of part of a series of works that the Argentine painter Lúcio Fontana produced in Milan between 1958 and 1968. These works, which consist of fabrics cut one or more times, are collectively conhened as Tagli ("cuts").

Considered as a whole, são or mais extensive and varied group of works by Fontana, and they pass to be seen as emblematic of his aesthetics. Or aiming two furos is, literally, breaking the surface of the work so that the spectator can perceive or space that is além.

Lúcio Fontana began to develop the technique of perfuming fabrics from the 1940s. A plastic artist remains, us in the 1950s and 1960s, looking for different ways of unwrapping the buracos as his characteristic gesture.

Fontana face as fendas with a sheet attached to the fabrics that were later nicknamed with gaze preta forte, giving the appearance of a vazio from behind. In 1968, Fontana shared with an interviewer:

"Eu created an infinite dimension (...) minha descoberta foi o buraco e é isso. Fico happy to go to the burial mound depois of such descoberta "

10. Counter-Composition VIby Theo van Doesburg

The Dutch artist Theo van Doesburg (1883–1931) painted a work up to the year 1925, in square format, using oil ink on a canvas.

As geometric and symmetrical forms are arranged cautiously, before being covered with ink, the lines are drawn together as a priori caneta.Counter-Composition VI The face is part of a collection that especially prefers a diagonal shape and monochromatic tons.

Apart from being a painter, van Doesburg is also a writer, poet and architect and is related to the De Stijl group of artists. Or work Counter-Composition VI, 50 cm by 50 cm, was acquired in 1982 by Tate Modern (London).

11. Meta-schemaby Hélio Oiticica

The Brazilian plastic artist Hélio Oiticica names various works made between 1957 and 1958 of meta-schemas. It deals with paintings that carry inclined rectangles painted with gouache ink on a cardboard.

There are geometric shapes with moldings of a single color (in any case or vermelho), directly applied on a smooth and apparently empty surface. The forms are organized in dense compositions that are assembled at sloping degrees.

Oiticica produced essa a series of paintings when he lived and worked in Rio de Janeiro. Second or own painter, he was treated as an "obsessive dissection of space".

The foram or initial research pontapé for more complex three-dimensional works that the artist would not develop in the future. Em 2010, um Meta-schema It was sold at Christie's for US $ 122.5 thousand.

Or what was it or Abstractionism?

Historically, abstract works began to be developed in Europe not in the beginning of the 20th century, not in the context of the Modern Art movement.

It is about works that are not intended to represent reconquered objects and are not committed to imitating nature. Therefore, the first reaction of the public and the criticism was of rejection of the children, considered incomprehensible.

Thus abstract art was criticized precisely for breaking as a figurative model. This type of work does not have any need to link with external reality and with representation.

As time passes, however, the works of more oil and the artists will be able to explore their styles in depth.

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